Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-16
THE HOME OF TIL FUTURE
A Talk of Domestic rvice OF the
Future,

A Talk 0f Domestic TVice Oh the
Future,
COMPLAINTS of the diculty OF OBJ
tanning suitable domes service are
not confined to this cdtry, but have
now become equally Id and frequent
in England. There here, too, a
strong prejudice agait such service
has grown up amG the working
people, so that at p,ent, according
to a correspondence the London
Times, "among artias the man SER
want, even, with pdered wig and
silk stockings, is eitr laughed at as
an excellent joke created with feel
ings of contempt"
The consequences been steady
decrease in the suly of English SER
wants. In 1871 THUNDER of female
indoor servants eoloyed was about
one in fifteen of population, while
in 1881 the numb ofindoor servants,
both male and feile, was only one
in twenty-five. 1872 the number
of men servants'as estimated 295,-
S54 for a popular of little over
10000. 900, whes the last census
gave only 244,., in spite of the
enormous mere. in population.
These facts le the writer to whom
we have referl to the conclusion
that "domesty in so far as it en-
ploys labor, Mt follow the general
law OF change Getting labor in all its
branches" Ut is, it must adapt
itself to the Industrial revolution
which has breht about "the substi-
tuition of largellective enterprise for
the petty he industry of former
ages The !siness of many shops
is included one great emporium,
spinning an(eaving have ceased to
be domestic dustries and are con-
fined to yafactories, and the ten
dency geney is toward the aggre-
cation of call for the control of the
enormous lertakings. Something
like associa homes seems therefore
to this writo be clearly indicated
for the nealture.
What hseen found out in the fac
tory and whouses, he is convinced,
will be disered at home; so that
instead d hundred fires to cook a
hundred It's, with a hundred SER
wants torn the spits, there will be
one large, and one or two cooks to
do the W, A row of houses or flats
will haA common kitchen, for
which tfrovisions will be bought
wholesalnd where the cooks will
be of highest skill. In this way
there vie great saving to the in
dividuaimes, and the difficulties of
the donic service problem will be
obyiate The kitchen will become q
great pry or workshop, so that
there vot be the prejudice against
emploNt in it that there is now
againservice in family. Those
who we'd there would no longer be
servar their status would be that
of emees, dealing with an admin
istratt manager"
In tlast remark he shows that he
has i'd the prime cause Of the pre-
judicainst domestic service. 1t is
not then and women obje, to the
workt that they resent the name
of set, as implying that they are
in avile condition. They rebel.
too. inst the submissiveness of
mapequired OF the domestic SER
vanh the supervision he is under
at aDurs. The want of tact and
exec ability on the part of mistress
ses his London Times writer truly
sayads to produce "those disputes
and constant change of servants
whontribute to render service SO
unfair" while service in hotels
incompetent managers is favor
abgarded. The servant in a hotel
8. flnore like an assistant, an en-
pic and less like servant" If
time institutions were 50 altered
tht merely the cookery, but also
alb domestic work, could "be
tan hand by an army of trained
asnts, both male and female,
wfinancial and social position and
inual independence might be-
cothe same as that of skilled
ans, the present difficulties" in
tlnion of this writer, "would dis
a. in due ratio with the develop
oinew system.
scheme thus proposed has been
ay carried into effect in New.
Nso far as some of the great
nent houses are concerned. In
there is ore kitchen for many
f.s, and it is presided over by q
lriced cook, such a man as only
thest single families are able to
g. Provisions are bought whole
nd there is variety in the fare
lssible in an ordinary household
its own kitchen. The house
,are also supplied by the man
Al whose pay and under whose
dine they are, and the establish
furnishes besides, mechanics
,rters for the common conven-
Therefore, a family may OBJ
'okery and service which only
Try rich are to secure in an
than a cooperative household.
people who have lived in such
tent houses have often become
SIZED with them. The cookery
lurant cookery, and something
character of home is lost. Life
Easy, and women may sigh for
'upations with which the old
led household provided them.
London writer is correct in his
on when he says that some
ike associated homes is clearly
ed for the future. 1t is true
!, as he remarks, that 1--WE are
to maintain in the nineteenth
the same domestic institutions
ted in the eighteenth century,
to say, before steam, railways,
egraph and modern collective
'ialism had entirely transformed
terial condition of our daily ex-
)" and we shall have to give up
>rt.-[N. Y. Sun.